...With singed top, their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd , To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend,...round, With all his peers : attention held them mute. _ . Thrice he essay d, and thrice, in spite ot scorn, Tears such as angels weep burst forth. Throughout...

...now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend, From wing to win;;, and half inclose him round With all his peers : Attention held them...he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, snch as angels weep, burst forth The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and...

...begin to swell, " Nor can the good receive, nor bad expel." — DHYDEN. , . 40 And thus bespeak, Sic." Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn,...such as angels weep, burst forth ; at last "Words, intenvove with sighs, found out their way." — MILTON. 43 You feel, with me, #c. — His lordship...

...pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From...their way. O myriads of immortal Spirits ! O Powers Matchless, but with the Almighty ! and that strife Was not inglorious, though the event was dire. As...

...pines, [bare, With singed top, their stately growth, though Stand on the blasted heath. He uow prepar'd To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From...wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peer* : attention held them mute. Thrice he assav'd, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as arigeU...

...He now prepar'd To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of sewn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth ' The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning...

...pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him mund With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn,...

...same guilt and ruin with himself. — He now prepar'd Tospeak; whereat their doubled ranks they bond , From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them aiute. Thrice he essay'd ; and thrice, in spite of scorn,. Tears, such as angels weep, burst fortli...

...jnnuT merable spirits whom he had involved in the same guilt and ruin with himself. He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From...all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay 'd, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth The catalogue of evil...

...eternal splendours flung For hi* revolt .. Mark the effect : i. He now prepar'd To speak •-• •• Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. Book I. v. 604, &c. Nor has Virgil suffered the unnatural and abandoned Mezentius, equally the contemner...